Intrigue. Relevance to you, to your day. On the first of every month, we bring you an original Hard Taco song, and this digest, a two headed worm of relevance and intrigue.
The first two or three episodes of Wandavision were in black and white, so we tried to reproduce that by having everything in the room be in various shades of grey.
I even painted the fire extinguisher because of COMMITMENT.
We had a neighborhood scene projected onto the window from outside the house.
The highlight was the music videos that would start at the push of a button. We called it VH1da-Vision (as in a mash up of VH1 and Wandavision). If you've been following the Hard Taco Digest, you know that I had already released 9 of these videos between February and April of 2021. We made 7 more just for the room. Here are the previously unpublished videos, now restored to full color:
The Hard Taco song for March is called "Scrapbooking." Lauren and I dipped our toes in the gluey waters of decorative album-making when Scarlett was a bambino. We bought a poofy scrapbook, scissors that made triangular cuts, and plenty of fungible sticker letters. Each garish page told a different chapter in the story of Scarlett's journey from energetic fetus to meconium-coated newborn to chubby cherub in a portable bathtub.
Fifteen years later, I can't remember if this was supposed to be ironic or not. It is certainly cute, and I love revising the baby pictures. I just can't tell how earnest we were when we labelled one of the pages LOUNGIN' or when we made a tiny green envelope to hold part of her umbilical stump. The song "Scrapbooking" imagines where we would be today if we kept going down that rabbit hole.
But this month, we are introducing a new endeavor that is, in some ways, akin to scrapbooking. It's called VH1da-Vision. The title is a mash-up between the music video channel VH1 and WandaVision, the Marvel superhero show that pays homage to several decades of sitcom tropes. VH1da-Vision imagines a channel that plays music videos from different eras, all of which are actually Marvel-themed parodies. Just go with it.
So to kick things off, we have two videos. "Wanda Wall" sets the stage, and "A Jericho, Idiot" harkens to the opening scenes of the first MCU movie, Iron Man. Enjoy!
